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Brad Heath, USA TODAY

Millions of Americans turned out to vote in Tuesday's razor-thin presidential election, facing long lines, strict new identification requirements and in some areas, polling stations without power.

Election observers said that by midday, they had fielded thousands of reports of voting problems across the country, many of them tied to new state voting restrictions and fallout from the storm that devastated parts of the Northeast last week. Voters reported hours-long lines in South Florida and parts of Virginia, voting machine malfunctions in key Ohio precincts, and Pennsylvania poll ...